tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692067574614653754.post4743618727870758697..comments2024-03-26T10:24:43.075-07:00Comments on Monday Molly Musings: Underdog on top - or when a C trumps an AMZMollyTLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565896547458451347noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692067574614653754.post-75941451802208974882017-08-14T08:15:13.198-07:002017-08-14T08:15:13.198-07:00We are halfway through August, and I am heading in...We are halfway through August, and I am heading into my classroom this morning with two boxes of board games in tow.<br /><br />This is the fourth time in the last three years that I will have taken board and word games into my classroom to add to what is already there. It seems like every time I open the cupboard door, I find more!<br /><br />Many of these games are ones that we would have played with our kids when they were younger. In the intervening years, they have grown out of them, and so the games are added to the collection in my classroom.<br /><br />In a recent conversation with my boys, we were reflecting back on some of the computer games that we played together when they were young.<br /><br />The very first game that my eldest and I played together was a wonderful game called Mighty Mike. To this day, we remember the "free dude" and the accompanying sound effect that occurred every time you manage to get an extra life. There's no way we would've made it to the end of the game, and the certificate of achievement, where it not for the fun of earning all those free dudes.<br /><br />Following Mighty Mike, we played Nanosaur, Bugdom, and (my favorite) the retro 1960s aliens-abducting-the-farmers Otto Matic. The games were all from Pangaea software, the gaming company out of Texas that focused on the Mac platform. Today you can get the games on the iPad. <br /><br />However, was Pangea's caveman racing game, Cro-Mag Rally, where I first tried to keep up with the boys in a split-screen race-track. It was then that realized that, try as I might, I wasn't as good at driving on the track as they were. <br /><br />Subsequent Mario type games only confirmed this. <br /><br />As Molly and Peter know, it was my boys who turned me onto Minecraft, and although they have moved on to new computer games, I still like to spend my time playing with blocks. At the suggestion of my eldest, I did download Portal at the beginning of the summer, and have managed to poke a few holes towards the finish line in that game. But there's no race, and we haven't played cooperatively yet. We'll see! aforgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09912586428128334109noreply@blogger.com